I am a Research Scientist with a background in extracellular electron transfer, synthetic biology and plant biotechnology.

I finished my PhD in microbial biochemistry in 2024 with Prof Tom Clarke and Prof Julea Butt at the University of East Anglia. There, I continued as a Senior Research Associate working with Dr Ben Miller and Prof Jonathan Todd on DMSP synthesis pathways in plants.

My research at the Quadram Institute focuses on exploring vitamin B12-binding proteins to unlock their biotechnological applications.

Key publications

Morales-Florez, A., Lockwood, C.W.J., Nash, B.W., Edwards, M.J., van Wonderen, J.H., Sachdeva, A., et al. (2025)  Extracellular catalysis of environmental substrates by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 occurs via active sites on the C-terminal domains of MtrC. Protein Science. 34(8):e70243. doi: 10.1002/pro.70243.

van Wonderen J., Morales-Florez A., Clarke, TA., Gates, AJ., Blumberger, J., Futera, Z., Richardson, DJ., Butt, JN., Moore, GR., (2024) Do multiheme cytochromes containing close-packed heme groups have a band structure formed from the heme π and π∗ orbitals? Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 47. doi: 10.1016/j.coelec.2024.101556.